A Yu-Gi-Oh! competitive champion, known as Hitsuji, was discovered to have cheated during a Hatti Grand Championship tournament, the largest Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament in Japan. The tournament’s blog posted the results of their investigation on Tuesday, stating that a player named Hitsuji was found to have:

manipulated the order of the cards in his deck

not shuffled his deck properly throughout the match

drawn cards without shuffling

As a result of these misdemeanors, Hitsuji has been barred indefinitely from participating in the Hatti Grand Championship and in any tournaments related to the Hatti Championships. I suppose it could have been worse. What do you think?

A video was posted on Twitter showing Hitsuji performing a false shuffle: